{"title":"Inconsequential results on the Merino-Welsh conjecture for Tutte polynomials","authors":"Joseph P.S. Kung","doi":"10.1016/j.aam.2025.102866","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We present two sufficient conditions on a rank-<em>r</em> coloop-free matroid <em>M</em> for the additive Merino-Welsh inequality to hold. The first is that the density of <em>M</em> is sufficiently large. The second is that all the cocircuits of <em>M</em> have at least <span><math><mi>r</mi><mo>+</mo><mn>1</mn></math></span> elements. These results are “inconsequential” in the sense that although they show that a version of the conjecture holds for many matroids, they are far from covering all the possible cases.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50877,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Applied Mathematics","volume":"166 ","pages":"Article 102866"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0000,"publicationDate":"2025-02-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Advances in Applied Mathematics","FirstCategoryId":"100","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0196885825000284","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"MATHEMATICS, APPLIED","Score":null,"Total":0}
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We present two sufficient conditions on a rank-r coloop-free matroid M for the additive Merino-Welsh inequality to hold. The first is that the density of M is sufficiently large. The second is that all the cocircuits of M have at least elements. These results are “inconsequential” in the sense that although they show that a version of the conjecture holds for many matroids, they are far from covering all the possible cases.
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